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Originally posted by ktsnake
Health of the mother? How is that? They actually must birth the baby (all but the head), then insert a needle into the skull to suck out the brains.
At this point, the child is birthed. If you actually go through with this birthing process, I see no possible way that this could be to protect the health of the mother. Please enlighten me.
I'm not completely anti-abortion. However, this method is something that is disgusting and in many ways wrong. At 25 weeks, a fetus can actually be viable to survive outside the womb with current medical technology.
Imagine a scenario where a "health of the mother" clause was inserted. Do you think that even 10% of the cases, no, even 1% of the cases would actually be done to avoid post-birth complications?
Nope -- because as I said, the whole birthing process happens anyway in this procedure so that's a pretty moot argument.
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Here are some conditions that can cause serious illness or possibly death of the mother (and likely the fetus too) which are not related to "giving birth" but are related to "remaining pregnant"
http://www.emedicine.com/aaem/topic363.htm
thyroid
hypertension
placenta or uterine tears
diabetes
uncontrollable epilepsy
previously undiagnosed heart problems